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It was first degree manslaughter- the article says she was facing "up to 25 years." She threw a tantrum about being asked to leave a park that was closing, threw her dinner on her fiance, "stormed down the street" then saw a little (100lbs vs her 175) old lady across the street, crossed the street while calling her a bitch, then shoved her onto her head. I don't think 9 years is too long for society to be protected from her.
The court ruled "not a murder" because it was just a shove, but anyone could have seen than a shove like that would likely kill a small 87 year old woman and it certainly wasn't an accident. The woman wasn't just in her way while she was angry walking down the street. She went out of her way to attack the woman.
Then there's the part where she evaded police for weeks, hiding her phone at a separate location, changing locations multiple times. I don't think the longer end of her sentencing options would have been unreasonable at all.
I don't necessarily disagree with you. I don't think there's really a number of years to put on it to make it appropriate. But I'm sure the lawyers discussed all the points you raised in negotiating this sentence. These numbers aren't pulled out of our asses, there are guidelines (almost certainly, again, not barred in NY) which help ensure similarly situated defendants are sentenced similarly.
What I'd like to hear more about, is whether the judge also ordered some kind of anger management counseling. I think that's what she needs more than a longer sentence.
If we truly want to balance the goals of protecting the public, adequately punishing the defendant, and also rehabilitating her, I don't think a few more years either way is what makes the biggest difference. I think it more depends on what she does with that time. I'm not sure what the situation is like within New York prisons as far as counseling goes, but if they have good programs, it's hard for me to imagine, if she takes it seriously, that 8.5 years of good counseling wouldn't be helpful to her, and to society at large.
I also think she could make all those gains in counseling, again, if she truly takes it seriously, within a couple of years. But then, I could probably be convinced that 2-3 years isn't long enough for causing someone's death. I've seen people get that for having the wrong amount of weed on them.
But then we get into the larger discussion about the entire prison industrial complex. We need some kind of change with how our prisons operate. Exactly how that looks isn't the point here. I'm just trying to point out that there's a bigger picture in play, and hope that people will consider that in the future.
In the end, nothing we say here has any impact on her life or the issued sentence. But it might have a difference in how people perceive and talk about the system as a whole in the future, so I think it's important to not lose sight of that.
I don't give a fuck about rehabilitation. There's 8 billion people on this planet, we can afford to dispose of the shitty ones. Spend those resources that would go towards rehabilitating her on someone who needs help and hasn't killed any innocent old women.
What's the point of rehabilitation if you just arbitrarily decide that people aren't worth it?
It's not arbitrary, it's based off the fact she threw a tantrum and killed a person.
but don’t you get?
this is a good white woman who made an honest mistake (anyone could have done the same)
not some black hooligan selling loose cigarettes
/s if not obvious